The Battles of Labor: Being the William Levi Bull Lectures for the Year 1906 |
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action affairs American Railway Union Anabaptist battles of labor body boycotts called carried causes cent Chians Chicago strike Christian coal strike collective bargaining collectivism committee common law conduct conflicts considered conspiracy contest court of equity courts demands disturbances Drimakos economic elements Eleusinian mysteries employers and employees establishment existed facts fire force grievances historic strikes increase of wages industrial injunction insurrection involved journeymen king labor organizations Laurium lecture legislation lockouts loss Lycurgus Martinsburg masters ment methods miners MODERN BATTLES Molly Maguires nearly non-union Numa Pompilius number of strikes parties Peasants Pittsburg ployers Plutarch president prevent principles profit-sharing Pullman Pullman Company Pullman strike railroad recognized result revolt road secure slaves social society Spartacus strike occurred strikes and lockouts struggle sympathetic strike tion took total number trade agreement trade unions uprising violence whole number workers workmen
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Page 209 - No man, nor corporation, or association of men, have any other title to obtain advantages, or particular and exclusive privileges, distinct from those of the community, than what arises from the consideration of services rendered to the public...
Page 99 - A combination of workmen to raise their wages may be considered in a two fold point of view: one is to benefit themselves ... the other is to injure those who do not join their society. The rule of law condemns both.
Page 207 - A chancellor has no criminal jurisdiction. Something more than the threatened commission of an offense against the laws of the land is necessary to call into exercise the injunctive powers of the court. There must be some interferences, actual or threatened, with property or rights of a pecuniary nature, but when such interferences appear the jurisdiction of a court of equity arises, and is not destroyed by the fact that they are accompanied by or are themselves violations of the criminal law.
Page 30 - Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore : let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Page 195 - What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Page 106 - ... shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten nor more than ninety days, in the discretion of the court.
Page 63 - Whereas, heretofore, if there was any dispute between a master in the trade and his man (vadlett), such man has been wont to go to all the men within the city of the same trade ; and then, by covin and conspiracy between them made, they would order that no one among them should work or serve his own master, until the said master and his servant or man had come to an agreement ; by reason whereof the masters in the said trade have been in great trouble, and the people left unserved ; it is ordained,...
Page 3 - S elsewhere, as may be deemed most advisable, on the application of Christian principles to the Social, Industrial, and Economic problems and needs of the times ; the said lecturer to be appointed annually by a committee of five members: the Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania ; the Dean of the Divinity School; a member of the Board of Overseers...
Page 4 - The Letter Establishing the Lectureship Bishop Whitaker presented the Letter of Endowment of the Lectureship on Christian Sociology from Rev. William L. Bull as follows: For many years it has been my earnest desire to found a Lectureship on Christian Sociology, meaning thereby the application of Christian principles to the Social, Industrial, and Economic problems of the time, in my Alma Mater, the Philadelphia Divinity School. My object in founding this Lectureship is to secure the free, frank,...
Page 63 - ... and the people left unserved ; it is ordained, that from henceforth, if there be any dispute moved between any master and his man in the trade, such dispute shall be settled by the wardens of the trade. And if the man who shall have offended, or shall have badly behaved himself towards his master, will not submit to be tried before the said wardens, then such man shall be arrested by a sergeant of the Chamber, at the suit of the said wardens, and brought before the mayor and aldermen ; and before...